The Closed Shop Policy
SM.—One may rightly abjure the principle of the closed shop on purely moral grounds, but there is also a practical objection which seems to be commonly overlooked. The worker......
Dogma And Fact
SIR,—In approving the comments of the Primates on divorce you summarise their opinions and add: "That is not church dogma ; it is bard and incontrovertible fact." To the......
.sir.-1 Should Like To Commend The Excellent Suggestion...
in your last issue. Let Easter be variable as it is now, and let the spring holiday be independent of it and fixed. Surely Janus misses the point. Good Friday would not be a......
Opposition Tactics
Sut,—As one who views the recent Conservative methods with sorrow, and agrees entirely with Mr. Gilbert Longden about the need to discuss Ministerial orders, I must say I would......
Tion Of The Magazine Here Is The News? This Is.a
once-only publication and will not appear regularly, as Janus surmises. It has been produced chiefly to provide one of the Christian links with the Festival of Britain. Eaton......
Christianity And The Bible
SIR.—Of course Mr. Hamilton Fyfe is right. How could a study of the Bible lead to a union of the Christian sects when every On noy interpret the Scriptures as he will ? Yet, if......
Sir, —may I Register A Protest Against A Single Sentence
in the otherwise wholly admirable paragraph on the Matrimonial Causes Bill in your issue of March 30 ? You say most truly that "the stability of the home, which rests on the......
Communism In The East
SIR,—In his interesting article on Persia, Mr. Philips Price paints a picture which, in general outline, is applicable to most of Asia outside the Soviet Union and Communist......
A Fixed Easter Sir,—would Not All The Difficulties Caused By
the vagaries of Easter be removed by simply separating the holidays from the holy days? I suggest that the "spring bank-holidays" should be the third Monday in April and the......
New Insecticides
SIR,—I read with dismay Mr. Richard Church's casual reference to spraying black-currant bushes with D.N.O.C.. The perils of modern insecticides and weed-killers are now being......